From sleep aroused
I squint to look about.
That cat of mine is
already on the the prowl.
This morning’s light
through curtains parted
creates a gleam
she’s never seen.
And now, she’s up upon
the kitchen counter,
poised in contemplation deep.
Can she complete the leap
across the gap to shelf on high
and catch the gleam
that fascinates her so?
It is a problem we all do face.
Can we complete that leap?
What will it take?
What might go wrong?
What could we gain?
What are the risks?
And even if we do complete,
what will be lost behind?
“Fail safe”, is caution
wisdom of the ages
hands down to us
in almost every land.
But, with emotions high,
it’s hard to think like that.
More than once, we’ll
trust our gut, throw
caution to the winds.
How many times have we
upon our asses, on our heads
landed deep into abyss
we’ve tried and
failed to clear?
And, how have we handled that?
With grin and backed away?
With false bravado, claiming
actually we did succeed?
What truth, what lies have we
told ourselves, and others?
And why? What’s been the gain?
And what the loss, for both
ourselves and those same others?
My cat, my lovely cat, she knows.
She knows from way back when
she was but a kitten.
She knows the gap must
not exceed her talents.
She knows to fail must not
exhaust her stored reserves.
She knows deluding
self and others only
traps her inside a box of
dark frustration.
My cat, my lovely cat, she knows.
She knows the world is hugely big,
filled with fascinations plenty.
She knows, too, that truth
is her unfailing friend.
She knows that if she
measures right, she will
succeed. And, have
both wealth to savor
and to share.
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Saturday, September 1st, 2018
Los Angeles/Hollywood
CA
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